Your first exposure(s) to real gore media - When, what, where?

[pipi666]

Faces of death on VHS back in the 80's

 

[Nuttybuddy87]

Upon searching I found this thread from 2012, but it has not been updated for more than two years, and the forum informed me that it's grown a beard.. So I took the liberty of creating a new one. I hope that's OK and that I haven't missed a newer thread with a similar topic.

The title should be self-explanatory.

Although I am a new member on the forum, I've been around for some time. I'm currently in my late 30's. Like most, if not all of you, I liked gore flicks as a kid and have always had a fascination for the extreme. In the late 80's and early 90's I was watching the Faces of Death series on VHS. As you probably know, the violent content was mostly re-enacted, with some real news footage, etc. thrown in. It was pretty shocking at the time.

I was doing the dial-up BBS thing for a couple of years before the Internet became available to the public. I remember seeing pics of bestiality and child abuse (it's fucked up how many "underground" BBS'es has their own child porn section, albeit with few and low quality pics). I might have seen gore, but if so, it can't have been very bad. Because I very clearly remember discovering Rotten.com rather early in my Internet career.

On Rotten I was exposed to pics of victims of suicide, murder and accidents. I'm not sure what I saw first, but I can remember my first HOLY FUCK!!! experience. It was a post on Rotten containing two (I think) pictures of the aftermath of an automobile accident on a parking lot. A man had been run over, his head split open, and his brains smeared out over the asphalt. I've been trying to find it again, but Rotten is not very search friendly. This photo (bestgore.com) is pretty close, although I remember the Rotten one to be of higher quality, different angle, etc.

I'm not entirely sure when I saw my first gore video, or which one was the very first, but I believe it was in the early days of Stile Project. I know for sure that the first suicide video I saw was the infamous Budd Dwyer suicide that was broadcasted live on TV. The first murder/torture videos I saw were the ones recorded by Chechnyan Jihadis, the worst one of which was the infamous "Cechclear" video (often renamed to "Russian Soldier"), showing a Russian soldier getting his throat slit. The first version I saw was in B/W, but a better version with color soon surfaced. There's been an article on the main page (comments thread here) about it, but it appears to have been deleted. Any info on this, and why it was removed? I'd like to read it.

Anyway, it was rumored to be a part of a longer video, with lots of people claiming to have seen the full version, and others mocking them for mixing up old memories. This thread went on for a while until someone uncovered this 13 minute video, confirming the rumor to be true. Upon seeing it, I can actually remember having downloaded and watched it some time in the early 2000's. Here's another classic from that era with similar contents, this one from Dagestan. I seem to remember the violent scenes from this one circulating as short clips around the same time.


After Stile sold out and his site became a porn portal, or perhaps before, I started frequenting Ogrish, among a couple of other sites that I believe went under pretty fast. As far as I know/remember, Ogrish was the first site dedicated exclusively to gore that also hosted videos (feel free to correct me on this). After Ogrish sold out to LiveLeak, I haven't really been an active gorehound, except to find photos and videos reported on in mainstream media (if it's described somewhere, and reported to be shocking, I gotta see it.. You know). That is, not until IS / ISIS went berserk with their propaganda war. But now we're way beyond first exposure, so I'll end this here.

Today is my first time visually encountering gore and its contents. I can (I don't know if I should say proudly but that's the word that comes to my mind) watch these videos of people commiting harm against themselves and others and not be shaken by it . Shits crazy

 

[Poacher]

2002. I found a few VHS tapes in a skip that one of the neighbours had during a house restoration.
i found maximum overdrive, lethal weapon, forrest gump and a tape called ‘banned from tv’. 13 year old me stuck it in the video player and became really intrigued.. then i found rotten.com and ogrish a few years later.

 

[Blaine]

My mother is a family attorney (divorce, child custody, abused children, etc.). As part of her professional work, she owns an illustrated book depicting various kinds of child abuse injuries, mainly black-and-white morgue photographs of children's corpses. This included bruised and lacerated genitals and anuses.

In the mid-1990s, I snooped into the glass-doored bookcase in her office one afternoon after school, found that book, and paged through the entire thing. I've never seen any of those photographs online in the nearly quarter-century since then.

 

[msr]

My mother is a family attorney (divorce, child custody, abused children, etc.). As part of her professional work, she owns an illustrated book depicting various kinds of child abuse injuries, mainly black-and-white morgue photographs of children's corpses. This included bruised and lacerated genitals and anuses.

In the mid-1990s, I snooped into the glass-doored bookcase in her office one afternoon after school, found that book, and paged through the entire thing. I've never seen any of those photographs online in the nearly quarter-century since then.

Well, get the book and share with us.

 

[Blaine]

Well, get the book and share with us.

Snooping in my Mom's shit as a teenager was one thing, but violating her trust and plundering her law office as a grown-ass man living under his own roof would be something else entirely.

I do have a key to the office in case of emergencies, which I would not have if I were still an untrustworthy little shit.

 

[HG]

Well, get the book and share with us.

yeh, b/w dead kids bits and bobs - no thanks...

 

[thedarklord176]

Somewhere on reddit...I was getting into guro and decided to explore more

 

[D.O.A.]

The killings of america, faces of death series, shocking asia and a video just called "executions" were in my VHS collection and eventually led to rotten then ogrish when I finally got the internet. That executions one had some blindfolded guy getting his face blown off with a machinegun. Good times.

 

[Rosie]

The killings of america, faces of death series, shocking asia and a video just called "executions" were in my VHS collection and eventually led to rotten then ogrish when I finally got the internet. That executions one had some blindfolded guy getting his face blown off with a machinegun. Good times.

The Executions video was the first one I had seen. My friend bought it in Woolworths lol, It was only the shelf for an hour before they realised what is was and withdrew it.

We were calling fake for most of them, I think it was the interview with "Alf Stewart" from Home and away that started that, but it was the last scene when the guy was shot in the face and was gasping for air that kind of swung it for us.

Curiosity got the better of us after that and we looked for more.

 

[D.O.A.]

The Executions video was the first one I had seen. My friend bought it in Woolworths lol, It was only the shelf for an hour before they realised what is was and withdrew it.

We were calling fake for most of them, I think it was the interview with "Alf Stewart" from Home and away that started that, but it was the last scene when the guy was shot in the face and was gasping for air that kind of swung it for us.

Curiosity got the better of us after that and we looked for more.

I'm sure I picked that up in a store someplace too, and yeah that guy getting shot in the face was real as fuck lol. I think he might have been Iranian or something like that. I think it has gas chamber stuff too? That video freaked a lot of people out.

 

[Rosie]

I'm sure I picked that up in a store someplace too, and yeah that guy getting shot in the face was real as fuck lol. I think he might have been Iranian or something like that. I think it has gas chamber stuff too? That video freaked a lot of people out.

I'm sure it covered the electric chair as well. I think that was the bit with Alf Stewart, But the guy at the end was possibly Iranian or Pakistani. Firing squad,

I 'm sure we had another video, longer. It had Bud Dwyer and Bungy jumps where the rope snapped. And one where they murdered a guy with a plastic bag over his head.

I remember my dad coming into my room and saying "You're brother says you're watching videos of people dying" and replying "Don't be silly, it's a BBC 2 documentary" lol

 

[Eyden2113]

New member here...nice to meet you all. You all make me feel soo.....normal! Anyway, my uncle had vhs tapes of faces of death(I think most if not all of it was fake) but that started the gore engine in me and my first real videos were terrorist beheading videos...been hooked ever since.

 

[McM]

The bloody remains of a slaughtered sheep full of maggots behind the bushes as a boy in the 1960s. Around the same time in the woods we found a cat that went into a trap and was strangulated and we played with the corpse 'doctor' for a while.
And war pictures in old books of my dad, as I've already stated here.
The rest is like usual... the known VHS series and internet sites
But this is my first and only gore-forum I'm in. Had a look here and there but.. meh.

 

[Smilecythe]

Electric retard comics

 

[PieFace]

Rotten.com years ago when browsing the internet was fairly new and dial up internet was a thing I was really young probably around ten.
I know this much, I used the same computer to do a school project on animals on an encyclopedia programme, definitely primary school age so no older than 11.
I was shocked to hear recently that rotten is still around although I never checked.
It was just pics though I think, train crashes and shotgun suicides.
I left it there until fairly recently when I heard in the news about a footballer who'd been in a plane crash and found in the sea had had his autopsy CCTV hacked and there was images going around so found this gaff while looking for them

 

[Amalgamation]

A buddy showed me 3 Guys 1 Hammer during a high school class when I was 16.

It simply fascinated me how much the human body can endure before it will finally cease from saving itself.

 

[januarytwnty]

I distinctly remember a couple things at a young age:

-Was born in Germany and my parents had these medical books with the most fucked up images of things. I remember being a kid and looking through the books so fascinated.

-My dad was in the Gulf War and kept photos of people he killed (maybe?)/dead Iraqis in his toolbox and I found them hidden in his toolbox when I was 11-12 years old and asked him about it. My mom was so mad and told him to throw it away. Not sure if he did but he never brought it up to me and scolded me for snooping.

-Of course those two things piqued my interest at a young age and we got the internet during the 2000’s and I discovered Rotten.com, Daniel Pearl beaheading, Goregrish, Best Gore and Faces of Death videos. Now I’m in my early 30’s and still enjoy gore

 

[Hk90]

Hello folks, Got started a long time ago on rotten way back in 2000 with a few friends, then went over to bestgore a few years later, till it was shut down...
And Youtube?, just does not have that OMG feel.
I had no idea GoreGrish was around recently made a profile a few days back, these vids consist of pure shock and awe.
Thanks goregrish for having me...
Take care in the new year

 

[gutterslut]

Faces of death when I was like 7, rotten. Com, I think my brother had found some fucked up shit on drewpickles.com that he shared with me. I think potatoes n jelly was my wtf moment though. Hooked on gore after watching a tire roll over a dudes head, just watching the pop with amazement.